Ever been stuck?

Got stuck on top of the hill of American Eagle more times that I can count in the early 80's. Back when they used to run three trains they never really got the blocking right and they would trip the block sensors about 3 or 4 times a day. Never got a walk down and at the time I was glad of that. Now I would kill for a walk down on Eagle.

My only other time was on Montu at Busch Gardens Tampa. The ride actually had a station brakes failure (just like in RCT, except not fatal), went through the station and up about halfway up the lift. Got a walk down on that one and it wasn't easy. They had to pull out special wooden stairs to upload each row. I was in the front row so I was the last to be evaced as they evaced from the back, forwards.

I've been stuck several times on Beast. Both lifts.

Once was on the second lift durring a nightride when the storms came in. Pretty Scary up there with lightning in the area.

Back in 79 I actually got to walk about halfway down the first lift after about 20 minutes of sitting there.

Chuck, who's been stuck for short periods numerous times on many coasters but nothing major like those.

Got stuck on Blazing Fury once at Dollywood, but I'm sure so have a lot of people. It was about the middle of the ride on one of the flat parts... er wait its almost all flat. Anyway, we waited there for maybe 10 minutes before someone came and got us. We were led through what seemed like a maze to get out.

I have been stuck on the Beast before. I was going up the first lift and near the middle, it just stops. "Oh great, I gotta be back down there and work in about 15 minutes..." Well, we start chilling, and some people ahead of me notice something. "Why isn't Vortex running either?" Sure enough, I look over and I do not hear the usual loud clanging of Vortex's lift. After taking some time to look around the park, NO coaster in the park is running. "Oh great, the park lost power." Well, after some time, I see one ride op racing past the lift towards lift 2. Lucky him, the other train was on the very top of lift 2. Shortly after that, my supervisor comes up. "Yeah, I might be a little late today..." I tell him. Well, during that time, my supervisor tells some lame jokes, "What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground Beef!!!" After about 25 minutes, my sup leaves the lift hill, and we finish our ride.

Only been stuck once and that was on TTD's launch pad. We were there for about 20-25 minutes before they came and undid our lap bars and led us back into the station. Cool thing was, we were able to cut everyone in line and get right back on after they sent two empty trains.

I got stuck once on the back spike of S:UE (now SV), for like a split second... oh... wait...

Anyways, in all seriousness, I have only been stuck on a hand-full of rides, most notable was Raptor, I was stuck on the lift, and then same ride, we got stuck in the MCBR for a total "stuck-ness" time of 1h45m counting both lift and MCBR.

I got stopped on the lift hill of Raging Bull for about 5 minutes.

At coasters after dark at SFGAm I got stopped about 20 feet from the top of Giant Drop for quite a while. That is one scarry ride to get stuck on. At first it wasn't bad and then you start thinking about the restraints, and being suspended close to 200 ft in the air. It also didn't help that there was a girl sitting next to me that didn't want to go on it in the first place but her friends made her.

I've been stuck in the lunch for TTD. I've been stuck on alphengiest and Flip Side two face as well as Apollo Chariot!

Apollo was on the lift hill. WE had to walk off

Alphengiest was on the lift hill but after 5 mins we continues to go!

TTD in the launch Area

Flip Side was a nightmare. After coming back around we didn't stop in the station we went back up the lift and back through the station then back up the lift then throw the station were they slammed on the breaks. We stopped just before the boomerang. Stuck for 45 mins. Its sucked!

I've been stuck on the lift of MF for about 15 minutes. Also, on the lift of Kumba for half an hour, under the burning Florida sun... not fun.

This did not happen to me, but I saw the train sitting on the lift... At Carowinds, BORG got stuck on the lift. Since they lower the seats to the "reclining" position in the station, the people stuck on the lift were stuck facing the sky. Add on to this that there was a moderate rain falling and this would have to be real uncomfortable. Not sure how long it was stuck... I would guess a good 15 or 20 minutes... but to those poor folks getting soaked on the lift it must have seemed like hours.

DragonFrost,

When was it that you went last year? The time we got stuck was around May 23rd. We got stuck almost completely at the top and everyone was cheering when we came back down.

I don't remember anyone else wanting to go for a second ride but that almost sounds like the time I got stuck that you were referring to.

Once I was stuck on X-Flight in the reclined position on the lift. Right after we stopped it started pouring. Everyone who rode got soaked. I think we were up there for 10-15 minutes

I know a few of you have been stuck on the launch pad for TTD. So was I and what dates were you there? me, on the launch pad it was July 7th, 2003 in the morning(got to cut everyone also)

Let me grab my official CoasterTool(tm) "Stuck on a Ride" log...

1979, 1st lift on The Beast (inaugural year), King's Island. Walkdown from very near the top...kinda scary for a single-digit youngster.

My personal coaster ride from hell story: 1989, Avalanche Run (final year, sort of), Cedar Point. Stuck on MCBR (is it really a run?) for 25 minutes during mufflehead season. Found out muffleheads like to swarm near the brakes when a car is there. Also found out about the CP legendary cutomer service, as a female ride op toughed it out with us for the whole duration (what a trooper!)

1991, Mean Streak (inaugural year), Cedar Point. Stuck on 1st block brake behind the station, angling down. Felt like a guinea pig as (IIRC) this was the employee ride night before the ride opened to the public. After 15 minutes, we got the walkdown.

2004, Coasterider Express, Dave & Buster's Columbus. Ride stopped on the lift hill during a power failure. After some tense moments, I helped evacuate 2 stranded riders and helped them make the 15-inch walkdown to the platform. :)

The Boss in april

Screamin Eagle next day

S:UF SFGAm Opening day for about 45 mins, got a free drink out of it.

American Eagle coming in on last break run

Ragin Cajun for about 20 mins, got exit passes for this one.

V2 launched about ten feet

These are just this year.

I got stuck on various coasters, Im not sure which ones though. I do remember getting stuck on the lift of Sooperdooperlooper for about 1/2 hour a few years ago.

Last year I got stuck on X-Flight for about 45 min. We got back into the station, but the seats didn't move into the upright possition. We had to lay out a long 45 min.

About 6 years ago I got stuck on the "Its a small World" ride for about 3 hours. They were having thunderstorms and somehow the ride just stopped, well the ride did at least, but not the music and everything else. It was the most annoying thing I have ever experienced. Just try sitting down listening and watching that damned song for 3 hours straight!!!! It just went on and on and on. It was like the song that never ends!!!!

I was also stuck on the lift on Kumba about 3/4 of the way up. They finally got the coaster running after 15 minutes. We got exit passes so it was worth it.

Since I've got nothing better to do, and I like to be a pain;), I'll point out all of these threads that are all about getting stuck on rides:

http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=36943
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=32623
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=30646
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=20880
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=12351
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=12429
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=11118
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=9868
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=5984
http://coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=1744

Well I had never been stuck on a coaster until yesterday. I had a few hours to kill after working, so I head out to meet some friends who were spending the day at SFGAdv. About 10:45 last night we get on Nitro and get locked in and dispatch. The train gets about 2/3 of the way up the lift hill and stops. So we are all sitting there wondering what happened.

Some of the Ideas.
1) Since we were told they had only few more trains going out that they were stopping us to make the people in the station move to open rows or they would make our ride the last of the night.
2) Due to the rampant attempts at poaching they did the same thing as above stopped us and were going to shut the ride.
3) The ride broke and either we would get restarted and go through or (the worst idea) we would have to walk down the steps.

Well after a few minutes we hear someone walk up and talk to the back few rows of the train. Being near the front we couldn't hear what he said. So he walks up to the front and says (and i quote) "We are sorry but we are experiencing technical difficulties. We will get the ride restarted shortly and you will finish your ride." To which a good reply was...."Technical difficulties? No we just wanted to sit here and look around. Here's Your SIGN."

So after a few minutes the worker walks back down and over the speaker system we hear "Riders on the lift we will be restarting the ride soon. Please sit with your head back and you will be restarted shortly" about a minute later the chain moves and we go through the circuit for probably one of my favorite rides ever on Nitro. The people on that train just were going crazy at that coaster ripped through it's course in the dark.

Myself and three friends went for a Cedar Point/Michigan's Adventure road trip last summer, and during our second day at the Point, we decided to tackle Iron Dragon. We were all sitting in the back of the train and the ride went off without a hitch...until the second lift hill.

The moment the entire train is on the lift, the train lurches and we hear a loud rumble. The train starts to shake back and forth and then, after a few seconds, everything goes silently. 10 minutes later, ops comes up to make sure we're all okay, but they keep looking nervously behind the train. One of my friends wiggled around her restraint enough to see that the chain lift had broken and fallen out of the ride -- and was now sitting in a huge pile behind the train.

Everyone was alright and we got manually released and walked down the track. The vindication of the whole story was the exit pass we received -- our group looked across the midway at the 1 hour 45 minute wait for Millennium Force and promptly walked right onto the second train. :)